Participants

Development of New Cathodes for Stable and Safer Lithium-Sulphur Batteries

Directors

Name of the Participant	Affiliation	Task in the Project
Assoc. Prof. Andrea Straková Fedorková	Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia (NPD)	Synthesis of cathode materials, electrochemical characterization, dissemination, project management
Prof. Elena Shembel	Ukrainian State University of Chemical Technology, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine (PPD)	Synthesis of anode materials, electrochemical characterization, fabrication of small format cells, dissemination
Prof. Pedro Gomez-Romero	Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Barcelona, Spain	Electrochemical characterization, long-term cycling, dissemination
Assoc. Prof. Marie Sedlaříková	Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic	Electrolyte safety, fire retardants, long term cycling

List of young scientists and other participants

Name	Affiliation	Task in the Project
Katarína Gavalierová Ph.D. Student	Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia	Preparation of the cathode materials, chemical synthesis, modification and electrochemical testing of resulting cathode materials.
Daniel Rueda-García Ph.D. Student	Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Barcelona, Spain	Synthesis and characterization of high-quality graphene and composites, electrochemical characterization of samples.
Oleksandr Markevych Ph.D. Student	Ukrainian State University of Chemical Technology, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine	Preparation of negative electrodes, final testing of coin cells, pouch cells, cylindrical cells, long term cycling.
Kamil Jasso Ph.D. Student	Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic	Lithium-sulfur cathodes testing, electrolytes, fire retardants.
Jiri Tichy Ph.D. Student	Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic	Electrochemical testing of electrolytes and fire retardants.
Olha Kolomoiets Senior researcher, Post-doc	Ukrainian State University of Chemical Technology, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine	Preparation, and investigation the negative electrodes based on Li and Li-Al alloys. Assembly and testing the semi- cells.
Yuliya Polishchuk Senior researcher, Post-doc	Ukrainian State University of Chemical Technology, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine	Electrochemical testing of cathodes based on S and anodes based on Si. Preparation of testing cells.
Oleksandr Markevych Senior researcher, Post-doc	Ukrainian State University of Chemical Technology, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine	Pouch cells assembling, electrochemical characterization, long-term cycling.
Margarita Skiba Senior researcher, Post-doc	Ukrainian State University of Chemical Technology, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine	Preparation of nanostructured electrode materials using plasma discharges.
Renata Orinakova Professor	Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia	Synthesis of sulfur cathode by electrospinning, electrochemical testing.
Dominika Capkova Diploma student	Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia	Synthesis of cathode materials based on sulfur and electrochemical testing.
Tomas Kazda Assistant Professor	Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic	Lithium-sulfur cathodes testing, electrolytes, fire retardants.
Josef Maca Assistant Professor	Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic	Electrochemical testing of electrolytes and fire retardants.